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Astra-Zeneca vaccine banned or suspended from many countries due to safety concerns and severe adverse reactions

16/3/2021

More countries are suspending the AstraZeneca (AZ) COVID-19 vaccine due to serious adverse reactions. It has just been announced that Denmark, Norway and Iceland have suspended the rollout of the AZ vaccine due to many cases of blood clots occurring in patients after their vaccine (BBC News, 2021). While there is no proof yet of how the vaccine causes this, it is a known side effect of this vaccine.

Some people have even died after developing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) after receiving a dose of the AZ vaccine (BBC News, 2021). The UK's adverse events database also shows over 41 cases of strokes caused by blood clots, with 6 of them being fatal, after receiving the AZ vaccine. The same database shows another 13 cases of blood clots in the lungs, causing another death, and another 2 dozen cases of other types of blood clots also (UK Government, 2021b).

The AZ vaccine is also the one that Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt had on the weekend, and 2 days later he was in hospital with cellulitis, a serious and potentially life-threatening skin infection. Again, cellulitis is a known serious side effect of the AZ vaccine (see attached table, taken from the UK's adverse events register) (UK Government, 2021b).

Other countries have also banned or suspended the AZ vaccine due to safety concerns, now including Italy and Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Luxembourg (BBC News, 2021).

Previously, Switzerland banned the AZ vaccine due to safety concerns, and Germany banned it for similar reasons on being used for people over 65 years old.

None of this is entirely surprising really, as the AZ vaccine is causing over 60% more adverse reactions and deaths than the Pfizer vaccine, on a per dose comparison (UK Government, 2021a; UK Government, 2021b).

The media and health authorities have been quick to point out that there is "no evidence" of the COVID vaccines causing these adverse events. But, vaccines are the leading cause of coincidences!

Stay healthy!

References:

BBC News. (2021). Oxford-AstraZeneca: EU says 'no indication' vaccine linked to clots. Retrieved 12th March 2021 from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56357760

UK Government. (2021a). COVID-19 mRNA PfizerBioNTech vaccine analysis print. Retrieved 9th February 2021 from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/.../COVID-19...

UK Government. (2021b). COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca analysis print. Retrieved 12th March 2021 from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/.../COVID-19...

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a one world diet attempts to save the planet and feed the world but will cause more nutrient deficiencies and disease

16/3/2021

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In 2019, I wrote a series of articles to critique the EAT-Lancet Commission report, on a proposed new "one world diet" which alleged to save the environment as well as feeding the world. It sounds like a great plan, except it had some massive holes and wouldn't work to achieve either goal. You can read my earlier articles on this plan here:

http://www.rosswalter.com.au/art.../category/eat-lancet-diet

The initial report received wide media coverage and praise until some independent investigations (including from me) found the the proposed new diet was woefully deficient in multiple nutrients (include vitamin B12, vitamin D, vitamin K, sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, omega-3 fats, protein and amino acids, and more!) which was not sustainable for anyone to avoid health conditions.

The EAT-Lancet diet was in effect an optional-almost-no-meat, plant-based diet, but included manufactured or highly processed plant-based foods. The extremely low animal products would comprise 1/5 of an egg, 2/3 of a fish finger, 1/4 of a rasher of bacon, 1/16 of a burger pattie, or 1.5 chicken nuggets! And even then, animal-based foods are optional! No wonder it was so nutrient deficient! A subsequent investigation into the financial requirements of the EAT-Lancet diet concluded that approximately 1.5 BILLION of the world's 7 billion population today would not be able to afford the EAT-Lancet diet! (Hirvonen, Bai, Headey & Masters, 2019). The EAT-Lancet new world diet was a failure.

EAT-Lancet is an interesting collaboration of the EAT Foundation Group, founded by a billionnaire vegan couple, and The Lancet, a medical and scientific journal. The EAT-Lancet Commission and report was funded by The Wellcome Trust, a charity with pharmaceutical company roots (Eat Forum, 2019). Almost all of the report's authors and contributors were vegans - it was a highly biased group, and their report showed this. The group is attempting to meet the Umited Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement (for climate change) (EAT-Lancet Commission, 2021).

Recently, EAT-Lancet group is back with a new report, full of wonderful quotes and proposals, which deserve to be investigated again, so here are some key points:

• They make many unsubstantiated claims why the future of the planet is dire if we don't all make huge changes to the food supply system and improving nutrition for everyone. They claim that a diet rich in plant-based foods and fewer animal sources will improve health and environmental benefits. But offers no scientific references to back this claim.
• They make no differentiation between organic or grass-fed animal sources of food, versus factory-raised (and grain-fed and other garbage-fed) animals or processed meats, which can give significant differences in health.
• They forget that animals IMPROVE the soil with nutrients and bacteria, and even sequester more "carbon" into the soil (and meat) from the air than what they give out. They also forget that roaming animals do not need vast clearing of native forests, unlike mass mono-plant agriculture (ie, plant farming is more damaging to the environment, than animal farming).
• They make no differentiation between highly processed factory-produced plant sources of food (ie plant protein, soy, GMOs etc) and fresh, whole plant foods.
• They make no mention of the huge transportation issues of getting plant foods to people, or encouraging many people with gardens to grow their own foods!
• Their dietary recommendations are still based on useless calories, but it can be used as a good comparison, for example they recommend 811 calories PER DAY from grains (wow! An epidemic of Diabetes here we come), 78 calories from vegetables, 153 calories from dairy (and never mind the many cultures who traditionally haven't accessed or consumed dairy, and shouldn't), just 30 calories from beef, lamb and pork, 62 from chicken, 19 from eggs (remember just 1/5 of one!), a huge 284 calories from legumes (and again many can't tolerate these or the pea protein powder it mostly comes from), and a whopping 354 from unsaturated plant-based oils, and even 120 calories PER DAY from sugar.
• Their aim is to double the consumption of plant-based foods (except starchy vegetables which are to be limited, despite them being rich source of fibre...), limit red meat (highly nutrient-dense), and with eggs, chicken and dairy being optional.
• Reducing food waste is a goal too, and a good one as up to 45% of food produced is wasted or thrown out because of picky choosing by supermarkets and other food companies, limited resources for picking or processing, not being consumed quickly enough, or other causes. However reducing waste is a much later goal, when it should be done first...

The EAT-Lancet Commission haven't learnt from their earlier failure - no change has been done to their original plan to fix the issues with their "new world diet", to correct the obvious and highly damaging nutrient deficiencies that are present in it. On one hand the report says it is about trying to improve food quality and quantity to feed everyone in a sustainable way, but doesn't actually provide the nutrients it claims.

With all the other political and health agendas going on at the moment and for the past 12 months, this is another part of it. A committee of a few people cannot realistically come up with a plan that will address or fix the entire planet or improve the health of the entire population. These co-called experts did a terrible job of putting together the original report and the "study" of their proposed "one world diet" being the EAT-Lancet diet, with massive issues that were found by independent investigations, but still haven't been fixed 2 years later. I'm sure these experts won't personally be relying on 1/5 of an egg for their daily animal-based protein intake...

This is a plan for CAUSING chronic nutrient deficiencies and disease in the ENTIRE population, while pretending to save the planet and improve health. Pretty much the same as another agenda going on at the moment...

Yes the food supply needs improving in many ways, but this diet or plan is not the way it can be done.

Stay healthy!

#foodcanfixit #fktheEATLancetdiet #fkthenewworlddiet

References:

EAT Forum. (2019). How was the EAT-Lancet Commission funded? Retrieved 8th March 2021 from https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet.../eat-lancet-funding/

EAT-Lancet Commission. (2021). Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems: Summary Report from the EAT-Lancet Commission. Retrieved 6th March 2021 from https://eatforum.org/content/uploads/2019/01/EAT-Lancet_Commission_Summary_Report.pdf

Hirvonen, K., Bai, Y., Headey, D., & Masters, W.A. (2019). Affordability of the EAT–Lancet reference diet: a global analysis. The Lancet, 8 (1), E59-E66. Doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30447-4

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To fix health issues you must find and fix the root causes

16/3/2021

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I was recently interviewed by a colleague/lecturer for his podcast channel, on a topic of my choice - of a particular health topic that is a passion for me, and something unique... On the issue of finding and treating the root causes of all health conditions!

While this might not sound that unusual, most people don't really undersand this, or why their health issues aren't getting better despite having medical or alternative treatments.

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine (and also of Naturopathic medicine) stated in his famous principles (amongst several others) to:

1) Treat the causes
2) Treat the whole body.

What people don't understand that this is not, and hasn't been for a LONG time, the medical model! The modern medical model is to:

1) Diagnose a condition after investigation of symptoms and testing
2) Treat the condition or symptoms with surgery or medications that remove or hide the symptoms
3) Treat everyone with that diagnosed condition or symptom the same!

How did the medical model get so far removed from the principles of Hippocrates?

The medical model can only "manage" your symptoms or conditions, and not actually treat them. Prescribed medications only hide symptoms but not actually fix the causes of them (because the causes are never investigated or found), so that symptoms are (sometimes) kept at bay only while you take the medications, but symptoms will return as soon as you stop taking them.

Prescribed medications also:

1) Push the issues deeper into the body and can cause worse symptoms over time, as the root causes are not treated
2) Cause side effects - ie, other symptoms, for which they will simply prescribe more medications to hide, which in turn cause more symptoms... Welcome to the pharmaceutic merry-go-round
3) Cause nutrient deficiencies, as medications often affect normal metabolic or digestive processes, leading to nutrient deficiencies, which in turn cause more symptoms and side effects.

In contrast, what I do is undertake a thorough and detailed investigation into all of your health issues, diet analysis of excesses vs deficiencies, lifestyle factors (stress, exercise, sleep), digestive system function, hormones, physical signs and symptoms, pathology analysis, and more!

I have developed a "root cause analysis prototol" which I then use to identify all of YOUR root causes as well as key symptoms that need treating, and put a treatment plan and recommendations together to quickly improve how you feel, as well as fixing all the root causes, which will return you to health and prevent issues into the future! In doing this, I am treating the whole body, as per Hippocrates' principles. It is a very different approach, but it works! Hence why I specialise in complex and chronic health issues, because I can find the root causes and get results, where doctors and other practitioners do not help you to improve.

Many times, the root causes can be very simple and easy to fix! But the root causes vary from one person to the next, even for people with the same diagnosed condition. Everyone is different!

If you are not happy with the progress of your "treatment", or if you feel that the root causes are not being found or treated, then please contact me for an investigation and advice that is specific to you! It is MOST important to find and fix the root causes, in order for you to get your health back, and to achieve your health goals!

Listen to my interview on the importance of finding and treating the root causes, now on the Humanley website:

https://www.humanley.com/blog/episode22

OR listen on Spotify;

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AZxXvVogMQK8sKwwBXcri

Stay healthy!

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Astra-Zeneca vaccine banned or suspended from many countries due to safety concerns and severe adverse reactions

a one world diet attempts to save the planet and feed the world but will cause more nutrient deficiencies and disease

To fix health issues you must find and fix the root causes

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